Add gRPC packages - looking for a Jenkins CI
Lennard Berger
- gRPC (0.13.1 if I'm not mistaken)
- protobuf3
- libCEF (on branch 2526, looking forward to upgrade)
- Packages for Debian, Ubuntu (and whatever community-distribution) scripts are going to be shipped
- This means we'd like roll the dice and ship our own PPA with up-to-date packages of the mentioned technologies
- Building on the gRPC, libCEF and protobuf3 packages, we would use those as dependencies for Inexor
- Use Chocolatery (the windows package manager) and compile binaries for Win7/8/10
- We don't have the private capacities (neither are we willing to provide them) to host SUCH a Jenkins instance
- Compiling libCEF is monstrously, it can take up to 25 GB for each individual build
- Free, cloud-based hosters (such as CloudBees, who sponsored us previously) and Travis are either too-slow or don't allow container modifications
- We need those for a decent reason: We build on GCC5+ (more precisely, on it's C++ standard library) and clang 3.2+ (with the clang language frontend), whom are not shipped in older distributions than Ubuntu 15.04 (and this consiquently breaks the entire proccess, since everything is compiled against GCC4)
Nicolas Noble
I will have to be a bit blunt, but the answer has to be no. There are many reasons why, but it revolves around the fact that computing resources aren't free. When running arbitrary code on a public facing website, we are constantly running into the risk that someone will spawn bitcoin mining processes on that infrastructure, and we already have to be extra careful about this with grpc. There is a good reason for something like Travis to have hard CPU quotas and strict limitations on what you can do for free. Note that you can give them money to unlock these restrictions. And the grpc team doesn't have the manpower to dedicate to the level of administration required to take additional external customers on our infrastructure - even if they would pay us for it.
I can more than anyone understand your frustration with building a large, resource consuming project for free, because this is exactly what we are doing at the moment with grpc, and we went down the same road as you, realizing that Travis would be enough for us. However, recouping your costs one way or another will unfortunately have to be a necessity I am afraid, be it from sponsorship, or other commercial venues. If you are looking for sponsorship from Google, the grpc team isn't really the appropriate entry point for that, and to be fair, I wouldn't know exactly whom to ask. Maybe try p...@google.com ? At the same time, can I suggest that you use the free trial of Google cloud engine, install Jenkins there, and evaluate the costs of running your project there ?
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